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Hardcover in Dustjacket. Condición: Very Good +. WEST AUSTRALIANA BiographyGeorge Julius Brockman (2 January 1850 â " 29 August 1912) was a prominent explorer and pastoralist in the Gascoyne and Kimberley regions of Western Australia.Extracts from the diaries of Western Australian pioneer, Julius Brockman ; Aboriginal infanticide referred to on pages 146 & 166.Born in 1850 at Guildford, George was the seventh son of Robert Brockman and brother of Charles Samuel Brockman.Brockman Snr was a settler in the Lake Bamban district near Gingin. The family moved to Mimigarra, near Moore River while Brockman was still a boy then later to a property on the Greenough River.Brockman left home at 16 years of age and rode south to Busselton and eventually took a job on Henty station near Bunbury.The May River and Meda River were named in 1881 by Brockman during an expedition in the Kimberley area looking for grazing land north of the Fitzroy River. He named the Meda is named after HMS Meda, an Admiralty surveying vessel that charted the coastline in the area including the river mouth in 1880. after the granddaughter of John Septimus Roe, Mary Matilda (May) Thomson. Brockman applied for a 250,000 acres (101,171 ha) leasehold along the Meda which the government refused instead offering a lease for 100,000 acres (40,469 ha) for 12 years rent free. He stocked the property with 1,100 ewes which suffered through drought followed by floods.Brockman acquired the 800,000 acres (323,749 ha) Minilya Station in 1884 for £15,000, from his brother. The property was struck by drought in 1890, then a lean season in 1891. By 1893 good rains meant good feed and plentiful water with Brockman selling plenty of stock. Drought came again in 1895 and 1896 reducing his flock of sheet from 12,500 and his cattle from 3,000 to 10 and remained there until 1902, then selling the property to Mr. D. N. McLeod. He then travelled and bought a property in Guildford.Brockman died on 29 August 1912 in Geraldton. 298 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, 1 geneal. table, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.#1017 /0618 /0521/170424. First Edition. SCARCE Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Slight wear at book corners and near spine top and tail. Previous owner has added price to blank preliminary endnote page. Interior and binding are excellent. Dust jacket has minor wear and is covered in protective plastic covering. Please see images for more information. George Julius Brockman (1850-1912) was an explorer and pastoralist in the Gascoyne and Kimberley regions of Western Australia. For thirty and more years until his death, Julius Brockman recorded in his diary almost daily. Brockman spent his early adult years working in Busselton as a cattle hunter and foreman for H R Princep. By 1875 he had moved north to the Gascoyne, managing pastoral stations including the Pyramid station. ?Brockman was the first European settler to bring stock to the west Kimberley to secure land on the Fitzroy River. He was blocked by new government land acquisition regulations from buying land on the south side of the river, and so he moved north to establish the Meda station on the May River. In 1888, Brockman sold Meda to return to the Gascoyne, purchasing the Minilya station. (J S Battye Library of West Australian History) Rare book.